单词 | nouveau roman |
释义 | nouveau romann. A style of avant-garde French novel which rejected the structuring conventions of the traditional novel (linear plotting, an omniscient narrator, etc.) in order to reflect the more fragmentary and random nature of human experience. Also: the movement associated with this type of novel. Occasionally with French definite article.The genre came to prominence in the 1950s with the work of writers such as Alain Robbe-Grillet, Nathalie Sarraute, Michel Butor, and Robert Pinget. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > novel > [noun] > other types of novel political novel1735 comic novel1787 epistolary1804 autobiographical novel1832 Robinsonade1837 roman1867 sea-book1867 roman à clef1882 roman expérimental1884 hill-top novel1895 saga1895 Bildungsroman1910 pulp fiction1931 American Gothic1938 Künstlerroman1941 suspense novel1952 nouveau roman1959 sword and sorcery1961 graphic novel1964 non-fiction novel1965 schlockbuster1966 dark fantasy1968 celebrity novel1969 swashbuckler1975 chick lit1988 splatterpunk1988 Aga saga1992 1959 Yale French Stud. No. 29. 9 The novelists of le nouveau roman devise the techniques and situations of what Sartre would call the transcendance of the object. 1965 New Society 12 Aug. 26/3 The author obviously owes a big debt both to Beckett and to the French exponents of the nouveau roman, with their insistent emphasis on the depiction of physical detail and visual objectivity. 1974 Times Lit. Suppl. 25 Jan. 69/2 The sources of Mr Gordon's off-the-peg technique are fairly clear: some Kafka; the Burroughs scissors; but mostly the nouveau roman. The novel, so this modish dogma asserts, is a ‘vision of things’, and the universe no more than the sum of the author's sensations. 1985 Cincinnati Enquirer 18 Oct. a 3/1 He became..an exponent in the late 1950s of the French ‘nouveau roman,’ or ‘new novel’ style which did away with conventional concepts of narrative structure, plot and character development. 2000 N.Y. Times Mag. 10 Sept. 39/2 The nouveau roman—a plotless, characterless exercise in abstraction—is widely considered an unreadable snooze. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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